Macon County judge finds state gun ban violates Illinois Constitution

This is just one of several lawsuits filed against the state for their despicable legislation. There have been (IIRC) three TROs barring enforcement of the law "Jabba" signed in January.
Get some popcorn - this is going to take some time.
 
If memory serves (and it may well not so in this case), the Macon County finding was not about the constitutionality of the law, but the "how" it was enacted. Which is alleged to violate IL law on the enactment of bills.

Now, there are something like 5 to 7 different major challenges to this new law, with at least three TRO, and the one Stay, in present effect.

If memory serves, several of the State-level suits have been combined into a single "class action" case. And, at least one has been advanced to the Federal District Court. And that the shenanigans of the bill enactment are as important to its egregiousness as its offense to the 2nd Amendment.

The new AWB was spawned by taking a bill meant to regulate the safety of slides at amusement parks, that had all the internal language stripped out, and the AWB inserted. That Bill was dashed late in the Session, both for being too blatant, but also, because somebody wanted the amusement park bill to lever more money out of amusement parks. So, a different Public Safety bill was gutted and the AWB inserted. This was late in the Session. But, the previous PS bill had been "passed out of committee," so it could be sent to the Floor for up/down voting. Allegedly this was in the last 48 hours' of the Session, so there was no way to get three Readings on separate Days, per IL law. So, they skipped over that part and just sent it to Augustus Nero Prisker for his signature, which went on near instantly. Voila! A bill!

Oops. A judge said, wait-a-minute, and granted a TRO. Several judges also followed suit.

And, this is not new. IL legislature was brought to task for doing this several years ago, and had been threatened with a Federal Ombudsman/Special Master, to resolve the issue (and decrease the number of cases brought in the Federal District Courts). Legislature promised they'd be good.

The fight for our 2nd Amendment has many levels, and it needs contesting at all of those levels. It's also why our various State-level Rights organizations need our financial support.
 
The fight for our 2nd Amendment has many levels, and it needs contesting at all of those levels. It's also why our various State-level Rights organizations need our financial support.

THIS ^^ , at this level of anti-2A activism, and simultaneously, the best total #s of pro-SCOTUS rulings, there is NO excuse not to toss even the lowly $5 spot towards some good organization.

The lack of activism using the tools to win, phone calls, emails/letters, shock voting! shcok, funding SUCCESSFUL lawsuits is the 2A communities Achilles heel IMHO.
 
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